_-_Canal_de_Haute-Perche.jpg) The Canal de Haute Perche at Chauvé, above the Pont du Clion. | |
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| Native name | Canal de Haute Perche (French) |
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| Location | |
| Country | France |
| Department | Loire-Atlantique |
| Arrondissement | Nantes |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Chaumes-en-Retz |
| • coordinates | 47°09′55″N 1°56′28″W / 47.1653°N 1.9411°W |
| • elevation | 41,71m |
| Mouth | |
• location | Pornic : Baie de Bourgneuf, Bay of Biscay, Atlantic Ocean |
• coordinates | 47°06′55″N 2°05′56″W / 47.1152°N 2.0988°W |
• elevation | 0m |
| Length | 17 kilometres (11 mi)[1] |
| Basin size | 137 square kilometres (53 sq mi)[1] |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Ruisseau du Pontereau, Ruisseau du Port, le Gué |
| • right | Ruisseau du Pin, Ruisseau de la Rinais, Ruisseau du Val Saint-Martin |
The Haute Perche Canal (French: Canal de Haute Perche [kanal də ot pɛʁʃ]), despite its title, is a natural river, the Rivière de Haute-Perche, that has been slightly canalised to improve navigation between its mouth in the Bay of Bourgneuf at the port town of Pornic and the upstream settlements of Le Clion-sur-Mer, Chauvé and Arthon-en-Retz.[2][3] It is located in the Pays de Retz in the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region. It has also been known as the Canal de Pornic since the 16th century and was sometimes called the Étier de Haute Perche. Historically, it was called the Rouet, after the wheels of the water mills in the port.[4]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
SANDREwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Holman, Clotilde (29 September 2008). La prise en compte du patrimoine hydraulique et de son environnement dans le cadre de l'élaboration du Schéma de Cohérence Territoriale (S.C.O.T.) du Pays de Retz [Accounting for the hydraulic heritage and its environment within the framework of the development of the Territorial Coherence Scheme (S.C.O.T.) of the Pays de Retz] (in French). Université de Nantes.
- ^ Le Boyer, J. (1825), Notices sur les villes et les principales communes du département de la Loire-Inférieure, et en particulier sur la ville de Nantes: où l'on trouver a la division du département, la population de toutes les communes, et ce que le département présente de plus curieux en antiquités, monumens, et histoire naturelle [Notices on the towns and main municipalities of the Loire-Inférieure department, and in particular on the city of Nantes: where we find the division of the department, the population of all the municipalities, and what the department presents of more curious in antiquities, monuments, and natural history] (in French), Loire-Atlantique: L'imprimerie de Forest, p. 312
- ^ Pierrelée, Dominique (1998). Pornic, étoile et reine [Pornic, star and queen] (in French). Nantes: Siloë. ISBN 284231087X..